BPD: 'Ongoing dispute' preceded murder, man charged
Marcel Bible told police Corey Waters had pulled a gun on him and threatened to kill him the day of the homicide and one day earlier.
Berkeley police have arrested the man they say shot and killed a 52-year-old man in an Adeline Street apartment building last month.
This week, the Alameda County district attorney's office charged Marcel Bible, who also uses the name Darnell Anding, with the murder of Corey Dushawn Waters along with two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon.
Police say surveillance video, ballistics and witness interviews helped them catch the killer.
During an interview with Berkeley homicide detectives, Bible told police he shot and killed Waters at about 12:30 p.m. Aug. 16 when Waters walked into 3228 Adeline St. "with a gun while threatening to shoot him."
Police say Bible, who turned 42 last week, then "walked to a neighboring apartment complex where he discarded his bloody clothing, washed himself up, and hid two guns."
Detectives later recovered two guns that had been stashed in a closet and determined that one of them had been used to kill Waters, according to court papers.
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Bible said Waters had also pulled a gun on him and threatened to kill him the day before the homicide, police wrote.
Witnesses said the men had "been involved in an ongoing dispute" in the days before the fatal shooting.
Berkeley police officers responded to the scene at about 12:45 p.m. after getting reports about a man who had been shot.
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They found Waters, who was from South Berkeley, in the stairwell with multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
"There was a large trail of blood leading up the stairwell all the way up to a 4th floor common area," police wrote in charging papers.
Officers found bullet casings and strike marks in the area.
Marcel Bible. BPD
Berkeley police detectives got an arrest warrant for Bible, who has no permanent address, on Aug. 17.
About a month later, on Sunday, Sept. 15, Oakland police found Bible in the 600 block of 23rd Street where authorities have been clearing a large homeless camp in recent days.
According to court records, Bible has a robbery conviction from 2013 and a related strike as well as a conviction for cocaine sales from 2005.
Bible is being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail and was scheduled for arraignment Thursday morning.
